Nobody knows who are they or the relation between them but perhaps they are trying to save each other at the last moment of life in the deathtrap of Rana Plaza. (Photographer: Taslima Akhter)

One last embrace: Two victims of the infamous garment factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, lie covered in debris together — blood hardened on the man's cheek like a permanent tear.

Many photographers documented last month's tragedy, standing silent testimony to the high cost of cheap labor. The death toll has risen to more than 900.

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But Taslima Akhter, in particular, shot a heartbreaking image that put a face on the tragedy for countless viewers across the world — starting with Akhter himself.

"When I saw the couple, I couldn't believe it. I felt like I knew them — they felt very close to me," Akhter said.

Volunteers use a length of textile as a slide to move dead victims recovered from the rubble. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Akhter found them about 2 a.m. with their legs buried beneath the concrete of the Rana Plaza factory. After publishing the image, he was inundated with questions. Despite a desperate search, he does not know their identities or relationship to one another. Regardless, their final moment affected him deeply.

"I looked at who they were in their last moments as they stood together and tried to save each other — to save their beloved lives," he said.

Shahidul Alam, founder of Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography, said that the image is deeply disturbing but somehow "hauntingly beautiful."

"An embrace in death, its tenderness rises above the rubble to touch us where we are most vulnerable. By making it personal, it refuses to let go," Alam told TIME magazine. "This is a photograph that will torment us in our dreams."

The tragedy increased pressure on companies that manufacture products overseas to provide safe working conditions from their workers.

Benetton CEO Biagio Chiarolanza recently admitted to the Huffington Post that his company had purchased shirts from a manufacturer that made clothes in the Rana Plaza building.

People rescue garment workers trapped under rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)

"The New Wave company, at the time of the tragic disaster, was not one of our suppliers, but one of our direct Indian suppliers had subcontracted two orders," Chiarolanza said.

News of the Benetton connection broke shortly before a another Dhaka clothing factory fire broke out Wednesday night and killed eight people including the factory's owner.